1.To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint. "Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone."
2.To mark with letters, characters, or words. "O let thy once lov'd friend inscribe thy stone."
3.To assign or address to; to commend to by a short address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend.
4.To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory.
5.(Geom.) To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries. Note: A line is inscribed in a circle, or in a sphere, when its two ends are in the circumference of the circle, or in the surface of the sphere. A triangle is inscribed in another triangle, when the three angles of the former are severally on the three sides of the latter. A circle is inscribed in a polygon, when it touches each side of the polygon. A sphere is inscribed in a polyhedron, when the sphere touches each boundary plane of the polyhedron. The latter figure in each case is circumscribed about the former.